On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Josef Wells wrote:
> Justin Georgeson wrote:
> >
> > Anyone know anything about Microsoft compiling Office for Linux? Someone
> > told me you could transfer an existing license to a Linux license and
> > download the binaries....
> >
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> Hmm.. no.. not exactly. The only way to run MS office under linux is
> under Wine (the windows emulatorish thing) There is, however, no Linux
> binaries for MS office. There are several other excellent replacments
> for MS office for linux such as Star Office 4.0, Applixware's office
> suite, and Corel's Wordperfect.
> Josef Wells
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Actually, if one is willing to have a dedicated NT machine sitting on
one's net, you can use Citrix winframe, which will let you run any
(windows) application under windows while encapsulating the
display/keyboard/mouse as an X client.
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